Middling Black

Sarah Shaw

25 x 25 cm | 9 x 9 in


Subject: Abstract
Tags: Dark, Crowd, Evocative


Original painting in oil on board - simply framed in black tray frame.

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We are immersed, briefly, in the painting’s own time zone. We experience absorption: the painting is speaking to itself, and we are privy to its process of coming to know its own aspects of depth, motion, and colour. Ultimately the temporality of paint is portrayed in Sarah Shaw’s works; its material existence that traverses stages of being, leaving traces of varying opacity and texture. Elements twist into the figurative and dissolve out of it again. There is a boundary a dog traverses; there, the concentrated effort of a stag’s movement. Why do animals feature in this oeuvre? They are present, vital: the dynamism of natural forces that the paint – instinctually applied – is a part of, not distinct from. In Shaw’s recent work there is a renewed focus on colour. The brushwork is its instrument of excavation, unearthing it from its familiar coverings to be reappraised, at times with an intense lucidity. There’s a meeting here, or as one title has it, a ‘happening’, between elemental materials and the more complex beings that arise from them. It is the painter’s process – striving, joyful – of perseverance in light of fleeting beauty. 


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